Commentary: It is the way we acknowledge the vulnerability of human life and affirm our deep, mutual dependency.
One Sunday afternoon my dad pulled the car over on the side of a gravel road and began walking down an overgrown trail in the woods. My mom and sister and I all got out of the station wagon and followed him. We had been driving through the Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge in northern Minnesota, just a few miles from our hometown.
People are also reading… I had never seen my father step foot in a church; yet, here he was, standing with reverence in this quiet spot in the woods, his head slightly bowed, speaking softly. I remember feeling, for the first time, that I was in a holy place. The ways in which the Greeks and the Kallatiai expressed reverence for their dead relatives differed greatly, but they were both insistent upon honoring the dead. As Huston Smith, the widely known student of world religions, observed: “Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.”
Looking back now, I can see that my childhood was filled with moments of reverence. Grandma Mae taking the flag down from the pole at the end of the day, carefully folding it and placing it on a shelf in the closet. My mother reminding us to bow our heads before the evening meal. Uncle Bob telling us the names of the constellations on a clear summer night.
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